windows 7 help

Discussion in 'Off Topic Area' started by Nojon, Sep 26, 2013.

  1. Nojon

    Nojon Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein

    If anyone can help me out with a windows 7 issue please chime in. Im wanting to reinstall a clean copy, but with the installation disc even if I boot from the cd, it tells me theres not enough space on the drive to install windows, nor can I reformat. This has never happened before. ive done clean installs on this machine before, and it just wiped everything automatically. Ive gone into disc management and theres a chunk of unallocated space i want to delete and just have the main and the backup that win 7 uses. ....
    any ideas? Sry for the rambling explanation.
     
  2. gapjumper

    gapjumper Intentionally left blank

    Linux

    If you still want/need 7, you could run Linux trial from disc/usb and use it to carry out the HDD changes as it usually ignores any windows restrictions.

    Back up first if possible :)
     
  3. Count Duckula

    Count Duckula Valued Member

    Have you tried deleting the existing partitions and simply creating a new one? That should always do the trick.
     
  4. Nojon

    Nojon Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein

    I cant delete or reformat them, in disc management where you can see all the partitions, it wont let me do anything. Thats where I saw the chunk of unallocated disc space.
     
  5. Rhythmkiller

    Rhythmkiller Animo Non Astutia

    You need ERD commander (win 7n version) - if your copy of win 7 is legit i believe it is free from M$ - can't remember what what the win 7 version is called but you can boot in as admin and it will let you make the changes.

    Think it's called DART try this from here

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee532075.aspx

    Baza
     
  6. mattt

    mattt Valued Member

    Have you tried a different tool to manipulate the partition such as Gparted?
     
  7. Giovanni

    Giovanni Well-Known Member Supporter

    gparted is good. i've also used ntfsresize. gapjumper's suggestion would also work.
     
  8. Nojon

    Nojon Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein

    Thx for the ideas guys, ill work on them today,
     

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